Internet no es la respuesta/ Internet Is Not the Answer

from PDCRead

Where would we be without the internet and the world wide web in particular? Since its conception in the 1960's (yes really that long ago) it has grown at an exponential rate and has come to permeate our entire lives in a variety of different ways. In its short existence, it has had bubbles as in...

from Dilip-Kumar

Another hard-hitting book in Keen's series on the Internet and the World-Wide Web. Here he documents how free access to digital media has laid low whole sectors of the economy like analog photography (think Kodak, which basically defined photography for the amateur), film making (YouTube), then p...

from dono421846

"while brick-and-mortar retailers employ 47 people for every $10 million in sales, Amazon employs 14 people to generate the same $10 million sales revenue. Amazon...is a job killer rather than a job creator, having destroyed a net 27,000 jobs in the American economy in 2012." Google, likewise, ne...

from Paul_S

According to the author, somehow, the fact that there are no longer tens of thousands of people developing film photographs is a bad thing. It is not explained why, it just is. Because jobs. I'm often an old yelling at a cloud myself but this is just weak. Internet is bad, but not because it stop...

from Darwa

While I do not agree with most of Keen's opinions, it was interesting to learn about how he reached his position regarding how the internet has taken away traditional jobs.